Xeryd said:
When I first saw it...I was like wow that doesn't look like a Pokemon, but I guess all Pokemon don't look like Pokemon at one point xD
I kind of find it funny how people complain how its design and name are crappy and forget that every generation had crappy names for pokemon and crappy designs as well. That said with all these animals we have not even hit the tip of the iceberg for things to base pokemon on yet, well we are at the very top of the tip but we are nowhere close to being at 10 percent of the iceberg of things to base pokemon on. The ghost sword thing is probably based on a myth/legend of a sword with its user's spirit inside it.
Anyone who says that Honedge does not look like a pokemon must remember that Nidoking does not look like a pokemon either. It looks like something from a Godzilla movie instead. They are hardly running out of ideas for pokemon and Honedge just proves it. (seriously it is about time that we get a sword pokemon)
I think I might be over thinking things here.